Word: major
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history. Incorporated into its Government were basic social laws no one of which could have been calmly argued or dreamed of by the dejected empiricists of 1929. Incorporated into its thought was an acceptance of social reform, no matter how hotly disputed were particular reform measures. Accepted by its major parties were the basic evolutionary changes represented by social security laws, trade union legislation, relief, social welfare-although fundamental to U. S. Government were knock-down-and-drag-out fights over particulars...
Communist No. 1 had not only thrown 85 divisions of the Red Army into Poland and mobilized a total of more than 4,000,000 troops last week, but all over Russia thousands of fresh conscripts continued to be called to the hammer & sickle colors as though for some major effort...
Chinese reaction was typical. Instead of quietly pressing these advantages into major victories, they stacked their arms, threw their hats in the air, and paraded all over free China...
...Cutler who was a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University, and was President of the Associated Harvard Clubs succeeds Huge McK. Landon '92, of Indianapolis Ind. He graduated from the Harvard Medical School in 1913 and served as a major in the Medical Corps in France during the war. In 1924 he was made Professor of Surgery at Western Reserve Medical School, and Director of Surgery, Lakeside Hospital in Cleveland, and he has been at the Harvard Medical School and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital since...
...unique student musical organization in the U. S. Dressed in colorful plaids ornamented with authentic Scotch paraphernalia, the R. O. T. C. Scottish Highlanders are giving an unusual color to Hawkeye gridiron pageants. The carefully selected group that makes up this unusual musical unit is composed of a drum major, 21 pipers, two base drummers, eight snare and five tenor drummers, and four lassies who dance the highland fling. Organized in 1935 by Col. George F. N. Dailey, the unit has won wide acclaim in the four short years of its existence...